I’Ll Protect My Tyrant Dad! [EN]: Chapter 36

36. Save Me, Baby Master

Delphia noticed the poison in the tea the moment she touched the teacup to her lips.

‘I thought I could purify it, but is it because it’s Grandma’s poison?’

Delphia’s ability was body modification, so I thought she could purify the poison sufficiently. It seemed my prediction was wrong. I watched her, dangling and shaking my legs.

“But I can save you.”

Delphia stared at me with interest. Her lips were turning purple every moment. I furrowed my brow and bit my lip tightly.

“…Oh, really?”

Even though it was clear she was being poisoned, Delphia didn’t seem to care. She sparkled with curiosity as she looked at me.

I nodded vigorously.

“Yes!”

“How can you save me?”

I recalled what happened yesterday and murmured.

“I have a weapon that can save Onni [term of endearment for an older sister or female friend].”

“…A weapon?”

“Yes!”

In an instant, Delphia’s eyes lit up.

“Really? Then what should I do for you?”

I was momentarily taken aback.

‘I was just going to heal her…! Because she might be in pain…!’

But that wouldn’t do. This is a villain family. I narrowed my eyes and said.

“O-of course, you have to do something for me.”

Delphia’s eyes curved softly.

“Oh, what is it?”

Thinking that it would be good to take away just a little bit of her power, not enough to threaten Father, I opened my mouth.

“Give me some of Delphia Onni’s power.”

Ability users like Delphia could create mana beads from a portion of their power.

That Axel Mirmod, the final boss of this Mirmod family, was such a vicious guy.

He threatened ability users who attacked him and took over a portion of their power, absorbing the mana beads into his body.

“A portion of my power, you mean you want a mana bead?”

“Yes! Just a little bit!”

When I answered brightly, Delphia burst into laughter.

I became more and more puzzled.

She should be upset, but I wondered why she looked so happy.

“So, I’m becoming your subordinate?”

She seemed quite happy just from uttering the word subordinate.

“…Huh? Not exactly.”

Even if she gave me a portion of her power, it wouldn’t make her a subordinate. It was just that I would have some of her power.

As I tilted my head, even more bewildered, Delphia clapped her hands.

“I like it. I’ll be your subordinate.”

“…?”

“I want to entrust my life to you. It sounds like a lot of fun.”

Delphia’s lips curved languidly.

‘No, what’s wrong with this person!’

I was a little embarrassed because I didn’t want to be responsible for her life.

But Delphia was already excited. She placed her hand on her heart and created a small mana bead.

“Take it. This is my leash.”

Mana beads were said to reflect a person’s characteristics. I swallowed hard as I looked at the mana bead in her hand.

The mana bead, a little smaller than my fist, shone with a brilliant silver color that resembled her hair.

“Ah, shall I make it into a necklace for our baby?”

I shook my head primly.

“…I’m not a baby.”

Extending her hand to me, Delphia replied with a languid smile.

“Yes, Master.”

The mana bead in Delphia’s hand turned into a pretty silver necklace.

She leaned towards me and slipped the necklace around my neck. Delphia whispered in my ear.

“Now, save me.”

It wasn’t the attitude of someone who wanted to live at all, but… her mana bead was already in my hands.

I didn’t know how it happened, but Delphia was quite docile.

Come to think of it, I remembered that one of Delphia’s settings was that she was quite soft and agreeable to those who satisfied her curiosity.

I don’t know why, but I seem to be quite an interesting existence to Delphia.

But to me, she just felt like a perverted older sister who was burdensome in many ways…

I quickly turned away from her and looked at the door, saying loudly.

“You can come in now!”

As if waiting, a little boy in pure white clothes, Acid, entered.

I wore a bright smile on my face.

Just the day before yesterday, he was an ordinary person, but from yesterday, he became an ability user, Acid appeared!

“That little kid is the weapon that can save me?”

Delphia seemed dubious, but I was more certain than anyone.

“Yes! He can save you!”

Yesterday, during the divine power test, something happened…

I smiled brightly as I watched Acid approaching us.

***

Just yesterday, inside the divine power test room of the Senoa Temple.

The divine power test room was a place where only the priest and the person involved were allowed to enter.

So, leaving Cien and Matthias outside the door, Acid entered the test room alone.

As soon as Cien disappeared, Acid felt a little intimidated, but he had to overcome it.

Because he wanted Cien to trust him, not for him to rely on Cien.

But the atmosphere inside the test room was cold and frigid.

The priest conducting the divine power test looked more annoyed than usual.

In fact, he was really bored and annoyed, and actually a little irritated.

‘Seriously, everyone and their dog is rushing to get a divine power test. Tsk.’

Recently, as the temple’s good deeds continued in contrast to the Mirmod family’s evil deeds, people became eager for divine power. That longing led to the hope of ‘Maybe I have divine power too?’

Because of that, the priest in charge of the divine power test was dying. His personality, which wasn’t good to begin with, was hitting rock bottom due to the overtime work yesterday and the day before. Moreover, he was the younger brother of a paladin, but he was relying on the villainous Mirmod family. He couldn’t say anything nicer.

“Sit down. Don’t expect anything.”

“…Yes.”

As soon as Acid sat down in the chair opposite him, the priest continued, crushing him with his words.

“I’ll tell you because you probably don’t know.”

Acid looked at the priest with clear eyes. He felt something strange in those eyes. The priest cleared his throat a couple of times and said.

“Kid, there are four categories of divine power in total. One is offensive divine power, one is defensive divine power. Another is prophetic divine power that allows you to communicate with God, and the last is healing divine power.”

The priest didn’t know, but even the refugees on the street knew that much.

People with offensive or defensive divine power become paladins, and people with divine power that can communicate with God become priests or priestesses. People with healing divine power are almost non-existent in the world, but they become healers.

It was said that healers had the power to heal everything on the verge of death.

“There are almost no healers with healing divine power… well, I guess you want to be like your knight brother.”

The priest smirked at Acid.

“Just know that it’s extremely rare for divine power to manifest at that age.”

Acid stared at him quietly and nodded.

“I know…”

“I’m giving you a chance to leave without taking the test now.”

“I-I’ll take it…”

Acid knew it too, but he came just in case.

He was intimidated, but he had no intention of giving up.

The priest paused for a moment at the subtly clear voice, but that was it. He shrugged and handed Acid a small cube.

“Tsk. Then let’s start with the cube test. Put your hand on this cube.”

The priest did not explain the process of testing divine power to Acid separately. This was because he expected this unremarkable boy to fail the first stage, the cube test.

Unknown to anyone, the divine power test consisted of two stages in total.

One was to test whether you had divine power.

This test consisted of a cube test, which, simply put, ended when you put your hand on the cube on the table.

More than 99% of the riff-raff who came to take the divine power test failed at this level.

The other was to test what kind of divine power you had and how much of it you had. It was thought that there was no need to explain it because there were virtually no ordinary people who entered this stage.

The priest rested his chin on his hand and looked at Acid, loosely closing and opening his eyes.

He stretched out his hand and put it on the cube, not like a beggar who had rolled around in the mud, but like a nobleman. But that was it, there was no way he had divine power…

“…Hmm?”

The priest frowned and looked down at the cube.

When a human with divine power touches the cube, a pure white light flickers from their hand.

And now, a pure white light was flickering before his eyes.

The priest, who had frowned for a moment, raised one corner of his mouth in a sneer.

“…So, you have some power, even if it’s weak.”

Acid didn’t answer.

The priest glanced at Acid. Acid seemed a little relieved.

He was said to be Ted’s younger brother, so it wasn’t something he couldn’t have expected at all.

But even if he passed the cube test, that was it.

Even the 1% who passed the cube test often received a judgment that they had a useless level of weak divine power in the next test.

He threw the words coldly at Acid.

“Don’t be relieved, kid, there’s a next test.”

“I’m not… relieved.”

His attitude, which didn’t seem hurt at all, was surprisingly impressive, but that was it.

The priest handed Acid a rosary.

On the outside, it looked like an ordinary rosary with a chain rolled into a circle and beads stacked inside…

But that was clearly a rosary given directly by God.

The rosary was a precious object that directly chose humans with strong divine power.

When a human held the rosary in their hand, light began to flow out of it. The color of the mana flowing out of the rosary differed depending on how strong the divine power was.

Usually it was white, and if the divine power was a little strong, it was red, and if a human with the most powerful divine power held it, it was gold.

“Be grateful just to hold this rosary.”

“…Yes.”

The priest buried his head on the table and wrote a report.

[1st Divine Power Test: Passed.

2nd Divine Power Test Result: Weak Divine Power.]

That should be enough to write.

Unlike the priest, who had already decided on the results in his mind, Acid calmly grabbed the rosary.

He was steadfast even in front of the priest, who had no interest in him at all and was full of coldness.

There had been many people who treated him like that until now. Only Cien treated him like a human.

He wasn’t even hurt by such treatment.

After holding the rosary tightly in his hand, Acid quietly asked.

“Can I hold this rosary like this, with one hand?”